Why would anyone rent a goat?
When I was in college, my friends and I rented a house in Providence. That spring, a few of my roommates wanted a mascot for their new literary journal, the Philtrum Press, and they settled on a goat named Phil. Phil kept our backyard nicely mowed (and fertilized). We thought that Phil was great (our landlords did not), but it never occurred to us that we might turn Phil's voracious appetite into a business.
The idea has occurred to others and it has some traction. Did you know that you can rent goats and cows to clear landscapes, manage pastures, reduce fire risk, and more?
A good information resource on this is Livestock for Landscapes. The organization's behavior principles seem to be right on.
Interested? Here's a list of grazing service providers.
If you have experience with using livestock for landscaping, let us know!
